Smoke empties section of Matheney school in Peapack

Some adult patients at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center were moved from their rooms this morning after a wing of the building filled with smoke.

"It wasn't an actual fire," said Sandy Josephson, a spokesman for the Peapack-Gladstone facility.

The school's fire-alarm company was running a test of the sprinkler system when a water pump located in a kitchen overheated, filling the air with an electrical-smelling smoke, Josephson said.

As many as 20 patients live in that wing of the facility, which houses 102 children and adults with developmental disabilities. The residents of 10 rooms were relocated to another section of the building while fans cleared the air, Josephson said.